Series > Wabi Sabi

A View from the Marsh
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2008
Edge of the Woods
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2004
Meeting of the Crows
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2004
Wild Raspberries
Watercolor
30" x 20"
2005
Metamorphosis
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2003
Garden at the Bog
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2004
Spring Blossoms
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2004
Mourning Dove
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2005
Goldenrod Glory
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2006
Fading Summer
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2007
Man/Nature
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2005
Approaching
Watercolor
30" x 22"
2004

The concept of these paintings was inspired by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi. The essence of wabi sabi is things transitory, incomplete and unpretentious. It is the diametric opposite of slick commercial style that surrounds us in our daily lives. Wabi sabi is anappreciation of the tenuous subtlety of nature in its endless pattern of living and passing.